Measuring device.



A. CARBONI.

MEASURING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED APR.5.1916.

Patented My 21,1918.

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AUGUSTO CARBONI, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

MEASURING DEVICE.

Application filed April 5, 1916.

To all whom, t may concern.'

Be it known that I, AUGUSTO CARBONI, residing in the city and county ofSan Francisco, State of California, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Measurin Devices, whereof the following is a specication.

This invention relates to measuring devices, such as are used by tailorsand clothiers.

The object of the invention is to provide an adjustable measuringapparatus, which may be adjusted upon the-body of the customer, and maybe removed without disturbing the adjustment, and which, therefore,forms a temporary automatic record. The invention thus eliminates dangerof error which is so frequently made in the ordinary manner of measuringand recording the gures of the measure.

The apparatus, which may be called a four` point steel measure, isequally applicable for measuring men or Women or children. It includes aband adapted to be passed around the body and to have its ends fastened.This band is made of steel. Upon it, connected to it by slidablesleeves, are steel bands extending upward in front and back. These bandsmay bebrought together on the shoulders and there connected by suitableconnectors, and their sleeves may then be secured upon the body band,thus providing fixed points which cannot err. The apparatus may then beremoved from the body, by simply loosening the body band, and slippingthe shoulder bands over the shoulders. I also contemplate the use ofvarious other bands, which may be of tape or linen, and which will giveother measures. The various bands mentioned may be divided into inchesand fractions, or other measuring units, and marked with figures, asdesired.

In the accompanying one sheet of drawing, I have shown my invention inthe best form as yet devised by me.

In the drawing Figure 1 shows the apparatus as laid out flat upon atable.

Fig. 2 is a perspective elevation showing it applied to the body of acustomer, as seen from the front.

Fig. 3 is a similar view from the back.

Fig. 4lis a partial elevation on a larger scale, showing how the meetingends of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1918.

Serial No. 89,003.

body band are fastened, and also the fastening means for the shoulderbands.

Fig. 5 is a cross section of the parts shown in Fig. 4, the sectionbeing taken longitudinally through the middle of the fastening clamp.

In these figures A 1 is the body band, divided into convenient unitarydivisions 2, as seen, which divisions may be marked by the figures 3,and 4, 5, 6 and 7 are the steel shoulder bands, also marked withconvenient unitary divisions 8, which may be numbered by figures 9, ornot, as desired. 10 is a sleeve, fastened to a shoulder band by rivets11, or otherwise, and encircling the body band 1. 12 is a set screw bywhich the sleeve may be clamped upon the body band, and thereby retainedin any position to which it has been set. 13, 14, 15 and 16 are linentapes, divided and marked, and secured to the body band in the samemanner as the steel bands, 4, 5, 6 and 7 but made of the softer materialfor convenience and greater cheapness.

Operation.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows, it being remembered thatthe details of the operation may be considerably varied to suit theideas of different users.

The body band 1, being passed around the body of the customer, has itsends secured together by passing the free end through the sleeve 10 uponthe other end. The measure may then be read off directly upon the band,and when released and removed from the body, if the zero end be drawnout and the sleeve reclamped, furnishes an automatic record of themeasure.

The body band, being in place on the customer, is slipped around untilthe steel shoulder band 7 is in such position that it will come to thetop of the shoulder near the collar, 17, see Figs. 2 and 3. The oppositeband 6 is then slipped along the body band until it is in position toregister with band 7, when it is clamped in that position by means ofits set screw 12. The two ends of the bands, 6 and 7, are then broughttogether and secured to each other by a sleeve clamp 18 with a set screw19. The bands 4 and 5 are then similarly adjusted and fastened. In likemanner the tapes 13, 14, 15 and 16 are adjusted and secured. Obviouslyother bands or tapes may be applied and used, if desired, and to anypreferred number.

The apparatus may now be removed from the body in the mannerl abovevdescribed, and laid out flat upon a table, and applied directly to thegoods, or the various dimensions read off and applied to the goods byother measuring means.

Having thus described mv invention, andV an embodiment of it, in thefull, clear and exact terms required. by laW, and knowing that itcomprises novel, useful and valuable improvements in the art to which itpertains, I here state that I do not Wish to be limited to the preciseconstruction and, arrangement of the several parts, as herein setforth,` asthe same may be variously modified by a skilled mechanicWithout departing from the spirit of the invention.

What. I claim and desire to secure by LettersPatent of the UnitedStates, is the following, to Wit:

1. A measuring device comprising a body band, shoulderbands connectedthereto andy laterally adjustable by sliding thereon, said shoulderbands adapted to have their free ends brought together over the shoulderand clamps thereon for adjustably securing said ends.

p 2. A measuring device comprising a body band, shoulder bands eachconnected at one end to said body band and laterally adjustable thereon,said shoulder bandseach having its free end running upward over theshoulder and slidable clamps adjustably :l

and clamping means adjustably connectingA themy together in pairs overtheI shoulder.

In testimony that I claim t-he foregoing I have hereto set my hand inthe presence of Witnesses, this 30th; day ofMarch, 1916.

, AUGUSTO CARBQNI. Witnesses:

L. A. ALvEs, D. B. RICHARDS.

Copie! of thixvpatent may be obtainedV for ve. cents each, by addressingthe. Commissioner of Patents Washingtonrn. C."

